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You might be thinking of ParrotVM. Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall had an April Fool's joke in which they announced they would combine Python and Perl into a si
by chadzawistowski 12y ago
You might be thinking of ParrotVM. Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall had an April Fool's joke in which they announced they would combine Python and Perl into a single new language, "Parrot". In spirit with the joke, ParrotVM strives to be a good target many dynamic languages in general (such as Perl and Python) rather than any specific language.
- sciurus 12y agoI was curious what happened to Parrot; it seems dead at this point. https://www.openhub.net/p/parrot/commits/summary https://www.openhub.net/p/parrot/commits/summary
- kbenson 12y agoNot dead entirely to my knowledge, it still gets some commits, mostly by Rakudo devs to tweak it so Rakudo still works on it, and rurban who is putting time in to actually move it forward (but he's only one man, and I believe he's got a rather high count of VM's he's the main contributor to at this point, so I don't know how much attention he has to spare).
- chromatic 12y ago[W]hat happened to Parrot Almost all of its developers quit around the same time: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.html http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.h...
- DonHopkins 12y agoSomebody finally explained to them that Parrot was actually a joke, and nobody was actually serious about Perl 6 either.
- viraptor 12y agoIt's not dead, it's just resting!
- JadeNB 12y agoThat was a thing of beauty. How often can one hope for such a set-up?